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span style=”font-size: medium;”Performance Outcomes and Deliverables/spanCharacter exploration; focus on importance of nature; study of creating mood through imagery; recognition of thematic, symbolic, and ironic elements; analysis of point of view and structure of novel. Supplementary materials include reading quizzes with answer keys, essay topics and a vocabulary list. Includes 10 Lesson Plans, 42 Handouts, 87 Pages, grades 9-12, high school.divp style=”text-align: left;” align=”center”br /p style=”text-align: left;” align=”center”span style=”font-size: large;”Literary Form/span/divAmerican Novelspan style=”font-size: large;”21st-Century Skills/spanCollaborationCritical thinkingInitiative and self-directionspan style=”font-size: large;”Overview/spanThe Old Man and the Sea/em portrays the struggle of an old Cuban fisherman against nature and isolation. It depicts the fisherman attaining his goal and then losing his hard-sought victory. Readers find themselves attracted to the determined, hard-working, fiercely independent protagonist who can be destroyed but not defeated.Ethan Frome/em depicts living conditions in New England villages and focuses on a practical New Englander who yields briefly to an impractical dream. It emphasizes the theme of isolation. Readers find themselves attracted to the determined, hard-working, fiercely independent protagonist who can be destroyed but not defeated.
